The video above for “Peggy Sue” is from a 1957 broadcast of The Arthur Murray Dance Party. Kathryn Murray prepares her television audience by warning them about the band about to perform:

They’re rock and roll specialists. Now, no matter what you think of rock and roll, I think you have to keep a nice open mind about what the young people go for. Otherwise the youngsters won’t feel that you understand them.

That intro is kind of like Buddy Holly’s glasses — archetypally square, yet somehow kind of cool at the same time.

I’d be hard-pressed to name my favorite song of all time, but if I did, it’d probably be “Lovers In A Dangerous Time.” The song you named is “Peggy’s Kitchen Wall.” The ‘hit single’ from that album is “If I Had A Rocket Launcher.”

So why is it that, on seeing that image, my brain *immediately* started playing “Dust And Diesel”? I don’t get it.